Watch our webinar that uncovers the significant yet often overlooked emissions embedded within supply chains. This webinar examines the often-overlooked impact of Scope 3 emissions and their role in shaping an organisation’s overall carbon footprint. It focuses on supply chain emissions, which typically represent the largest share of total greenhouse gas emissions and pose the greatest challenges in terms of data availability, accountability, and reduction.
The session explores how Scope 3 emissions arise across upstream and downstream activities, including purchased goods and services, transportation, processing, and end-of-life treatment of products. It highlights why supply chain emissions are critical to effective carbon management and how they influence decarbonisation targets, stakeholder expectations, and regulatory reporting.
The webinar also addresses practical considerations for measuring and managing Scope 3 emissions, including data collection approaches, supplier engagement, and the use of estimation methodologies where primary data is limited. Emphasis is placed on integrating Scope 3 insights into broader decarbonisation strategies, enabling organisations to prioritise actions that deliver meaningful emissions reductions across the value chain.
By focusing on the hidden impacts embedded in supply chains, the session provides a clearer understanding of how Scope 3 emissions shape corporate climate performance and long-term sustainability outcomes.
Here are some questions that were answered during the live Q&A session:
- In your experience, is it likely large multi-national corporations are unlikely to answer specific questions on the caron emissions of the goods being supplied to you? If so, what is the alternative to spending time reading through lengthy ESG reports to try and find the detail you are looking for that will help with a carbon estimation?
- Where would you say is ok to draw the line of what can and can’t be measured? As some categories are near impossible to measure especially if you rely on lots of third parties.
- How to collect supply chain emission data?
- What all software skills one must acquire with respect to supply chain management and ESG and carbon footprint?
- In the FMCG sector, how does a company measure scope 3.1 emissions and set targets if their suppliers are mostly traders and not the manufacturers of products?
- Do carbon footprint calculations for plant-based raw material suppliers take into account the carbon sequestration capacity of the cultivated plants themselves and their contribution to air purification during the growing phase (particularly for perennial crops)?
- Is it acceptable for a processing company to calculate the carbon footprint on behalf of its agricultural raw material suppliers, given that most small farmers lack the resources or capacity to do it themselves?
- Does a renewable energy investment have an impact on reducing scope 3 emissions?
